San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-10-11

up stairs in his slow and quiet way | saw
him before he saw me. He was dressed like
a common sailor; his hair was grayer and
his dear old face graver; there was no other
change.
He stood in the doorway He actually did
not recognize me-
"Dan" l cried, springing into his arms
"DanI Don't you know me"
Then he did, and laid his hands upon my
shoulders, holding me back and looking at
me, before lie kissed my cheek.
My pretty!' hesaid, "and growed so tall |
And such a LADY, To be sure, she always
was as sweet hammered as any lady In the
land. And oh, my pretty he's gonel he's
gonel Don't take onl don't take onl"
Tell me all about it, Dan. Tell me- And
poor Jephthah gone tool"
Cut in two halves he was, with a chain
shot. Died in action, my boy Jephthah. But
Mr.. Campion, poor young gentleman, he died
by drownding. Fell of the yard in the
night, and never was seen-how could he be
seen?-afterwards. Poor young gentlemaRI"
"Oh, Dan-Dan-my heart will breakl"
Cry, pretty-cry as much as ever you can.
But cryin' won't bring him back. Cry now,
while tell you all about him.
tory. was Smuggler Dan. The boys were
Smuggler Job and Tother Job-because, I'm
sorry to say, they mariners aboard bis
majeStys ships never knew which was
which. And SO Jephthah, who is now cut in
two pieces, was never knowed as such. And
Mr.. Campion they called Gentleman Jack
Now remember-some young gentlemen after
getting three years billet in the foksle for
smuggling would ha' sat down and grizzled.
Mr.. Campion wasn't one o that sort. Pro
vidin' always he says to me-'providin' al
ways, Dan, as my mother never finds out,
why, what odds is a three years cruiser And
merry with it. Once he ketches hold Of a
fiddle, the foisle's alive; when he began to
play you'd ha' thought the fiddle was talkin',
not him playin'. AL round him the men
would be sittin' an singin' till the whole ship
was as good tempered as if there wasn't nary
a bosn nor petty officer aboard.
"Well, you may depend on it, pretty, that
it wasn't long before the officers got to know
what an uncommon sailor they'd got shipped
aboard the Victory, for little run as he'd
made across the Channel one fine night; and
it wasn't long before Capt. Hardy hisself,
finding Mr. Campion on the quarter deck,
was and how no came aboard Mr. Camnon
M more afraid of Sneaking to the cont,in
tho,, t, ,bo oarr,antor ho ia hin, ,o,,ah;nr,
his hat that Ina had haen cauobt sm,ggling.
that they'd oil cot off with tSraa vesrS for
tho irformotior tboy ooyo to tho Admiralty
and that ma honad 10 Owe satisfaction 10 his
t,i.'' - ~ " 80, - " -
time he said he shouId give nm saiIoring he
fore the mast Can't Hardy he Iougbad and
the admiral laughed. and then his IorIsbin
who ought 10 know. said in his ouiet easv
wav. that n man was mo- worse sailor for
heing - pentI.mon horn but tho, oortIomen
ought not "a RIM carpoes across the Channel
After that | think the word WAS MISSED down
10 make some sort of difference with ne
Anyway, the worst of the bos'ns never laid
ropes end ON hone of us four.
Come the action off TrafaIgar Nv nret-
ty. we done our duty-Job and Jephthah and
MIR. Canlpion and me-tiu that chain shot
came, and all saw O my bow Jepbtbah was
two halves and n pooi of blood
"When the admiral fell they told me To
carry him down. That took best mart of n
quarter of an hour. The action lasted half
an Lour longer When tbe firing caasad and
one could look round, | saw Mr., Campion
alongside of Job. alive and hearty As for
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hands When Dam ,imiSh,d - n.''t IL my
FL s,I,t;,sa'i l'.ii -o'l ouiS' ou' ih'o
80 SCO''ts anu crying l lorgot about
looked nm Will Gon ~, Inns never